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December 11, 2005
A year of killing: Article on women killed by their partners or exes
The Guardian, December 10, 2005
Every woman in the article below was killed by her partner or ex in one year - and yet how many of their stories do we know? Few are reported in the national press, and at Guardian Weekend we wanted to discover who these people are, and what happened to them. The list makes shocking reading. [...] In a new study, Professors Rebecca and Russell Dobash of Manchester University found that male murderers who used violence against their female partners tended to have more "conventional" backgrounds than, say, men who murder other men - they tended not to come from difficult homes, or to have fathers who used violence against their wives. However, they were likely to have used violence against previous or current partners - they "specialised" in violence against women. [...] "The thread that runs through this," say Dobash and Dobash, "is the man's sense of ownership of the woman, and his control over the continuation or cessation of the relationship."
Posted by Emma at December 11, 2005 06:36 PM
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